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NSW Prevocational Training Term Description
Please complete with reference to the Guide to completing the NSW Prevocational Training Term
Description Template
A: ACCREDITED PREVOCATIONAL
TRAINING PROVIDER NAME:
Training Term Based at:
Offsite Term?
Includes affiliated private
hospitals, general practices,
community-based medical
services
B: TERM NAME:
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If not at above location, please give off site facility name and location:
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Yes
No
If yes, Collaborative Agreement to be attached
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Please outline the role of the unit and range of clinical services provided:
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Overview of Unit or Service
Please outline the patient case mix, turnover and how acutely ill the patients
generally are:
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Term Duration (Weeks)
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HETI Term Identifier
Number
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HETI Assigned after
accreditation decision
Date of Accreditation by
HETI
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C: TERM CATEGORY
Please identify if the term
meets the criteria for a core
term or if the term is an
‘other’ term (please specify).
For information on ‘core’
terms please see the last
page of this document.
Is the term a PGY1 or a
PGY2 term?
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term
PGY1
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PGY2
Please note that a PGY2 ONLY accredited term MUST not be staffed by a PGY1.
Specific accreditation must be sought for a PGY1 term
D: TERM CAPACITY
Please indicate the term
capacity – maximum
number of PGY1s and
PGY2 trainees
PGY1
number
PGY2
number
MAXIMUM NUMBER
OF TRAINEES IN TERM
total
NOTE: number of PGY1s + number of PGY2s = maximum capacity
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E: TERM SUPERVISION
Name, Position and
Contact Details of Term
Supervisor
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Responsible for trainee term
orientation and assessment
General Contact:
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Term Supervisor Contact
with Trainee Term
Supervisor to provide a plan
for contact with the
prevocational trainee/s
during the training term
Orientation:
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Primary Clinical Supervisor
(if not Term Supervisor)
Name, Position and Contact details
Mid Term:
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End of Term:
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Consultant or senior medical
practitioner with experience
in managing patients in the
relevant discipline (PGY3+)
Immediate Supervisor with
direct responsibility for
day to day supervision
Name, Position and Contact details
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(PGY3+)
Clinical Team Structure
Provide positions of all
members of the clinical team
who provide supervision and
bedside teaching to
prevocational trainees
including AMO’s and
Registrars. Please also
identify and describe how
PGY1 &2s will be distributed
amongst the team/s.
Name, Position and Contact details
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F: SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS TO PRACTICE SAFELY DURING THE TERM:
This section may include:
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Courses (e.g. life support,
resuscitation)
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Procedural skills
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e-Learning requirements
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If there are any specific
requirements please provide
details of how the trainee will
receive this training/will be
assessed.
G: TERM LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
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Please list top 5 learning
opportunities/objectives
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3
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4
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H: EXPECTATIONS OF THE PREVOCATIONAL TRAINEE
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Please list expectations
Patient Load
(average per shift)
After hours Roster
Patient Load per trainee
number
Patient load total for
team
number
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Does this term include
participation in a hospitalwide afterhours roster and if
so please advise frequency
and the onsite supervision
available after hours
HETI OFFICE USE ONLY - Approved by PAC or PAC Member
Date
Signature / TRIM DOC
number of PAC
minutes
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I: SIGN OFF
Terms will not be considered unless this section is completed.
Revision date and by who
(Name and Position)
Endorsement by Term
Supervisor
(Name, Date and Signature)
Endorsement by GCTC
Chair (or representative)
(Name, Date and Signature)
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Term Requirements (from page 22 – 23 of the HETI Accreditation Procedure)
a)
Requirements of a core emergency term
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Minimum of 8 weeks in a term that is accredited.
Term supervisor: specialist emergency physician or a senior clinician with appropriate experience in emergency
medicine responsible for patient care
Continuous clinical supervision in the department at all times
Supervision of bedside procedural skills by direct observation
Supervision of medical emergency skills to ensure that trainees demonstrate satisfactory participation in a
resuscitation team. This can occur in supervised exposure to acutely ill patients or in a simulated setting.
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Supervision to ensure that trainees demonstrate the ability to identify urgent priorities in the assessment, referral
and management of an undifferentiated acute patient.
Requirements of a core medicine term
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Minimum of 10 weeks in a term that is accredited.
Term supervisor: specialist physician responsible for patient care.
Appropriate caseload: considering acuity, comorbidities and patient turnover and opportunities for a PGY1
trainee to participate in the assessment and admission of patients with acute medical problems.
Patient management ward rounds for the ongoing care of patients conducted with the same senior clinician
(minimum PGY3).
Immediate senior clinical assistance available at all times (minimum PGY3).
Supervision to continuously evaluate aspects of the trainee’s history-taking, physical examination skills,
discharge planning and communication skills (both written and verbal).
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Supervision to ensure that the trainee safely prescribes therapeutic agents.
Requirements of a core surgery term
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Minimum of 10 weeks in a term that is accredited.
Term supervisor: specialist surgeon responsible for patient care.
Appropriate caseload, considering acuity, comorbidities and patient turnover across a broad range of acute and
elective surgical conditions.
Clinical exposure to the range of pre-operative assessment, operative procedures and post-operative care
including to patients who exhibit the common features of surgical illness including the metabolic response to
trauma, infection, shock and neoplasia.
Immediate senior clinical assistance available at all times (minimum PGY3).
Daily ward rounds for the ongoing care of patients conducted with the same senior clinician (at least PGY3).
It is expected that the trainee ‘scrubs in’ to actively participate in operating theatre sessions for at least four halfday sessions in the term. The intern should have opportunities to participate in surgical procedures common to
the term.
d)
Other PGY1 terms
A range of other approved positions to make up 12 months (minimum of 47 weeks full time equivalent service excluding
leave). These terms provide experience in additional areas such as but not limited to aged care, anaesthesia, general
practice/community based terms, palliative medicine, psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine and obstetrics/gynaecology.
PGY1 trainees should experience consistent supervision throughout all terms, and at least one of the remaining terms
should
continuous
and
not
significantly
interrupted
by
other
duties.
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J: TERM / UNIT TIMETABLE AND INDICATVE DUTY ROSTER
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
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Important notes about completing the timetable:
 Please include the start time and finish times of the shifts the trainee will be rostered to.
 Please show the activities that the trainee are expected/rostered to attend – these include all education opportunities (both training facility-wide and term specific),
ward rounds, theatre sessions, inpatient time, outpatient clinics, shift handover, morning handover from hospital night team, afternoon handover to hospital’s after
hours team. Please include the approximate times of activities wherever possible.
 If there are extended shifts or evening shifts as part of the term, please attach four weeks of rosters for the whole team. If the term includes evening shifts please
ensure it meets the requirements for evening shifts (refer to the accreditation procedure)